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THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH. SUNDAY; FEBRUARY 8, 1891.
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HO TRUTH IN
1
The Boston Lady Who Was
Attacked by French De
fends Herself.
A SCHEME TO BLACKMAIL
Her Side of the Story and an Inter
view With Mr. Merrill.
10SD0S EXCITED OVER A BALL.
A Woman ilnrders Her Father as the Eesnlt
of Family Troubles.
BIG C1LICO TKUST FOE ENGLASD
TBT DCXLAfS CABLE COMrAKT.l
London, Feb. 7. In connection with
the story just now agitating Boston society
and attaching to the name of Miss Fanny
Smith, daughter of Deacon Smith, of the
Smith Organ Company, Miss Smith was to
day seen by a reporter at the Montague
Mansion Hotel, Great Itussell street, "W. C,
where she is living, chaperoned by a well
known Boston lady. She was asked regard
ing the charges made against her by Harry
W. French. Miss Smith very willingly
saw the reporter and said:
"Mr. Frencn's story is entirely false. He
is revengeiul because I brofce off my engage
ment with him, and I broke it off because I
never loved him. I became engaced to Mr.
French in January last, and I decided to
break it off October 3, and then sailed for
Europe on October 11 last in the company of
mother. I sailed so as to get away from
French. I positively swear that nothing
that could be construed into a marriage con
tract ever existed between Mr. French and
mc. It is a case of pure blackmail, and he
is a scoundrel, as he has made evident to
everyone by merely saying such a thing.
Her Mde or the Story.
"Since last month 1 have been engaged to
Mr. Merrill, my father's representative in
London, and it is on account of this proba
bly that French is acting as he is. The
story on which he bases his cowardly
cnarge is as follows:
"I met Mr. French at a church social in
November, 1SSS, and saw nothing further of
him until September, 1889. During the
October, November and December following
I saw him often, and in J.muar following I
"became engaged to him. In the sitae month
his father, mother and sister came to visit
him in Boston, where he was living with
his son, a bov of 16. and I took
tea with them. They left in April and I
after they left 1 went to his bouse and dined
wilh him, and our pastor made two or three
short calls on him. Last July I went with
mother and Mr. French to Nova Scotia on a
pleasure trip to be absent four weeks. After
our return on or about September 3 he asked
me to accompany him alone to Portsmouth,
2C. II., lor the day's trip.
Storj or a Stateroom.
"I consented and we sailed on the steamer
John Brooks. After we had left port
French asked me it I did not Kant a state
room, as I might feel sea sick. I emphati
cally declined to have one, saying
I was never sea sick. We had
been out about an hour when
he came to mc with a stateroom
key and I told him the sooner he disposed of
it the better. He replied. JSo one Knows
anything about my having it, as I have not
registered." I firmly declined, however, to
enter the room.
"Afterward when our engagement was
broken he spoke of this incident, and said
he had been forced to bear the shame of
getting the room tor me and then its not
beiug occupied. I reminded him that he
had told me no one knew of his getting it,
as he had not registered, and then he ad
mitted he had told me a lie abeut it, and
that the people in the boat knew he had
registered. This he told me with the idea
of intimidating and forcing me into renew
ing the engagement.
Attempt at Intimidation.
"After my departure ior Encland my
father received a letter from French re
questing an inteiview. Father granted it,
and French said to niv father he had come
lo ask his consent to his marriage with me.
Father answered: 'If you have come here
with the purpose of thought of in
timidating me, vou have mistaken
your man.' This interview lasted nearly
two hours, and at the end father
shoved French out the door and told him to
leave. Mr. French said nothing to father
at this time reflecting on my character. He
simply demanded my hand, and said he
would have me. Failing to get me, how
ever, he commenced a systematic series of
blackmailing letters. Father ignored the
threats totally.
A Money Making Scheme.
"His stories are outrageous and inexcusa
ble. The fact is, Mr. French wanted my
money. He has lived in fine style .md lost
considerable money thereby, and a'ter los
ing his own money he lost some 500,000 be
longing to his wile. This latter he took to
pay some debts. After all this he came to
Boston, and evidently thought by get
ting engaged lo me I would as
sist him out of his difficulties finan
cially. He of course pretended to be
in love with nie, but there was no
love in it. It was simply a money making
scheme on his part. Finally he told father
I had been as good as married to him and
since then he has been making the same
statement to friends of mine. He thought
I came here to marry Mr. Merrill and so he
went to work and spread the virulent
stories in all directions to injure me. He
has even written them to half a dozen of my
friends."
Mr. Merrill, the London manager of the
Smith Organ Company, was seen in his office
by the reporter, and said:
Mr. Merrill Isn't Disturbed.
"The week after the arrival here of Mrs.
Smith and her daughter my business called
me to the United States. While there I
attended the church Miss Smith belonged
to and french caught sight of me. On the
following day I received a letter
from French of a most disgraceful
nature, and telling me he had
previously written me at my London
address explaining fully the relations he
hid with Miss Smith. He then went on to
say he had learned from good authority
that Mrs. Smith had taken her daughter to
England with the express purpose of
marryingher to me, and it was his wish to
do by me only as he would like to have any
one do by him if placed in a similar posi
tion. "He concluded by requesting me to grant
him an interview. This request I naturally
reiused and took no notice of his letter, as I
knew his statements to be absolutely false,
and realized that his only objectin pursuing
this dastardly course was to extort money.
Finding he had lost Miss Smith, he resorted
to every foul measure to prevent her mar
riage with me. Notwithstanding reports to
the contrary we are still engaged and that,
too, with the full consent of Mr. and Mrs.
Smith. Miss Smith is in the best of health."
THE POPE AND EDUCATION.
nis Holiness Preparing a Letter on Arch
hishop Ireland's Discoarse.
BOME, Feb. 7. The Pope has finished
the long and exhaustive study he has been
making of the educational question in the
United States, and as a result he is pre par-
ins a letter to Cardinal Gibbons upon the
subject of'A.rcTibis'hop Ireland's discourse.- "
S;The Pope is highly satisfied with Cardioal
Gibbons' statement, and bases his reply
upon the facts ret forth in the Cardinal's
letter.
A SCENE OF REVELRY.
LONDOff EHJOYS A BALL AFTEE THE
CAEMENCITA STYLE.
A Gaiety Girl's Stockings Nailed to a Box
and Filled With Sovereigns Susceptible
Tonth Marched Up to Pay Tribute In
Cold Cash.
ET CABLE TO THE CIS PATCH. 1
London, Feb. 7. Augustus Harris ex
periment in giving a public fancy dress ball
at Covent Garden Theater this week, was
entirely successful. There were something
like ,000 present. Most of upper Bohemia
was present. Irving, Terry, Langtry, Ber
nard Bere and many other lights of the
theatrical profession looked on from the
boxes, and many other Thespians gamboled
on the floor in various costumes.
The ball proceeded on the same lines as
those ot the Cercle dc l'Harmonie on the
Arion in New York. At midnight every
one was sedate. At 2 o'clock matters were
livelier, and those who were not in for a
night of it were going home. At 4 o'clock
the revelry was at its height, and at 6
o'cloct not' all the dancers were ready to go.
An incident of the occasion was the dance
by one of the girls of the Gaiety Theater in
costume, who was lifted into the lower tier
of boxes by two youths iu red hunting out
fits, and deprived of her slippers. She con
tinued the dance in her stockings, aud was
lifted into the box and bereft of these.
The two youths now pinned the stockings
to the front of a box, and Lionel Brough,
who was discuised as a policeman, arrested
one masher after another and brought him
up to contribute, until the weight of sov
ereigns in the articles of raiment almost
brought them to the floor. The Gaiety
girl seemed to like it This Covent Garden
ball is the first of a similar nature in Lon
don in half a century.
SHE M.TJ2DEBED HEE FATHEB,
Awfnl Crime of a Young Woman "Which
Ended a Family Quarrel.
rET DCSLAP'S CABLE COMPAST.l
Blois, France, Feb. 7. This ancient
and usually quiet town, the capital of the
Department of Loiretcncr, was the scene
yesterday of an unusual tragedy. In the
pleasant suburb of Villepoint there has
lived for many years M. Francois Saule, a
member of the Municipal Coun
cil, a genlletman of large fortune
and high social standing. He bad
passed his 78th birthday. M. Saule was
not fortunate in his domestic relations. He
had for many years been a widower, and his
children had become more or less estranged.
His daughter Sidonie was gilted with rare
beauty, of Spanish gypsy type, much vi
vacity and fundamental endowments, but
they were all neutralized by au unbridled
temper.
She rejected the lover her father favored
and married M. Victor Penaud, the reckless
and dissipated sou of a bankrupt stove
manufacturer. The couple were rarely
invited to the house of M.
Saule, and their martial life was
embittered by the willful tempera
ment of the young woman. Her husband's
character developed into that of a quiet, in
dustrious and sober citizen and he rapidly
grew into favor of his father-in-law. This
embittered the wife and on her father's ad
vice M. Penaud obtained a divorce from her
and her children were placed in a convent.
Mmc. Penaud brooded for weeks over her
fancied wrongs, visiting her married broth
ers and sisters to stir them up against their
father, until, at 6 o'clock yesterday morning,
she armed herself with a revolver, and, en
tering M. Sanle's residence, forced her
way into his room and shot him. The
ball entered the throat, proving fatal.
The wretshed woman threw hersel upon
the body and fired shot after shot into the
corpse. She then calmly walked to the
police station and gave herself up.
TEN PERFOEHING LI0N8.
A Nephew of Daniel Boone Coming to This
Country "With Them.
BT CABLE TO THE DISFATCn.
London, Feb. 7. Chevalier Daniel
Boone, a grand nephew of the great pioneer,
sailed in the "Wyoming this week for
America with ten performing lions. Boone,
who is a Kentuckian by birth, has
not been in his native land for 15
years, durinswhich period he has been over
the hunting grounds of Asia and Africa,
capturing and taming the king of beasts.
The ten lions he has with him were all
captured and tamed by himself. He received
the title Chevalier from the Sultan of
TurKey.
THE HEW ITALIAK CABINET.
Prime MinUter Diltndinl Sacceeds In Get
ting Ministers Together.
Kojie, Feb. 7. It is semi-officinlly an
nounced that the Marquis di Iludini has
succeeded in forming the basis of the new
Italian Cabinet. The following are the
names and portfolios decided upon:
Marquis di Kuilini, Premier and Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs; Signor Nicotera,
Minister of the Interior; Signor Pelloux,
Minister of War; Signor Branca, Minister
of Finance or Public Works; Signor !"Chi
mirri, Minister of Agriculture; Signor
Luzzatti, Minister of the Treasury.
The names of the gentlemen who are to
fill the positions of Minister of Justice,
Minister of Finance, Minister of Marine,
Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Posts
and Telegraphs and other officers are, as yet,
not decided upon.
A BIG CALICO TBTJST.
It Will Have a Capital of 500,000 rounds
and Take in All England
;ET CABLE TO TUX OISTATCn.l
London, Feb. 7. An attempt is being
made here to form a huge ring for the con
trol ot the calico printing business. Many
of the largest houses are already pledged to
the syndicate, and it is anticipated half of
the producing power of the country will
join the ring. The nominal capital will be
at least 5,000,000.
The one weak point about this scheme is
that Sir John Pnleston has the engineering
of it. Sir John is an affable old gentleman,
but he has neither the energy nor the ability
to manage an immense enterprise of this
kind.
AGAINST THE HEW TEEATY.
The
News of Dissatisfaction, However.
Comes From England.
London, Feb. 7. Advices have been re
ceived here to the effect that the moderate
papers of Rio Janeiro totally disapprove of
the treaty of commerce recently arranged
with the United States, as being greatly dis
advantageous to Brazil.
Johnny's Great Head.
Boston Courier. 1
Miss Quidnunc You must be very fond
of reading, Johnny; I never see you without
a book.
Johnny Yes'm.
Miss Quidnunc What are yon reading?
Johnuv I don't know, mum.
"Miss Quidnunc You don't know?
Johnny No'm; I just hold the book,
'cause when ma sees me with a book, she
says to pa, "Now, don't disturb that boy;
don't you see how he studies? He'll make
a great professoror something; Jet him alone
and go and split the wood yourselC
THE SEAT OF LIFE
Laid Bare for the First Time by Emi
nent New York Surgeons.
fHE MEDULLA OBLONGATA OPENED
And a Tumor Stripped From the Delicate
Kere Center There.
A EICH CUBAN BEADTI THE SUBJECT
rerzciAL telegram to lai disfatctu
New York, Feb. 7. In a private oper
ating room in this city one of the most
marvellous pieces of surgical work ever
done and, it may be safely said,
one never before attempted, has just proven
a success. The diagnosis of tumor of the
fourth ventricle and cord was made out, but
no one could suggest a remedy. The beau
tiful sufferer, a wealthy Cuban, went from
one to another in vain. The knowledge
possessed by the medical profession on the
surgery of this part of the brain is ex
tremely limited, and is confined mostly to
cases iu which the autopsy was the chief
means of study.
Wanicko has reported a case of about the
same kind on which no operation was per
formed, although long before bis patient's
death he made the diagnosis of tumor
of the fourth ventricle, and found at
the subsequent post mortem that he
had been correct and might possibly have
removed the tumor had he tried. Barry and
Bromwell report another case in which
the same circumstances occurred. They
were too faint-hearted to attempt
an operation, and their patient was allowed
to die without an attempt to save his lie.
Sickling also renorts a case of the same
kind, and, finally, Putnam-Jacobi has col
lected a long list of such cases from the re
ports of hospital records of post-mortems.
The Difficulty of Item oval.
Thus, it will be seen, that the chief diffi
culty is not the making of a correct diag
nosis, so much as it is the actual removal of
the tumor. The medulla oblongata lies
mostly within the skull, and the necessity
for trephining not only the comina of the
second vertebra, but also the base of the
skull in the vicinity of an important blood
sinus, makes the operation one of extraor
dinary danger.
The medulla oblongata in which the
fourth ventricle is situated contains in an
extremely small space a nerve center that
presides over almost every function of the
body. To injure that means immediate
death. So delicate is the me
dulla that the thrust of a
needle into it proves instantly fatal.
It is the spot selected for the performance of
the capital execution of "pitting" or the
garrote, as it is known in Spain. It is also
chosen by the vivisectionist who wishes im
mediately to kill the victim on which he
has been practicing the experiments of his
cruel art
Cause of the Trouble.
A connection of some of the best known
Spanish families in New York, the patient
was unmarried and had seen most of the
famous surgeops and neurologists of Eu
rope, Brown-Sequard among others. While
in Paris she heard of Dr. William T. Bull,
of New York, a daring and suc
cessful surgeon, and as a last
attempt before resigning herself
to fat" she calted on him. After consider
ing the case for some time and correspond
ing with many of the European specialists
whom she had seen, he consented to attempt
the operation, as he felt sure it would
shortec her life but little even if it proved
fatal.
Many years ago she had received a fall
striking on the back of the head with con
siderable force. The immediate result was
the partial paralysis of the lowe- parts of
her body, produced, doubtless, by a lesion
within thj spinal column and the .formation
of a blood clot within the canal around the
spinal nervf. In the course of a year she
got better, but both leg and various areas
of the body remained paralyzed. For ten
years she was unable to get out of
bed. About a year ago she noticed
that the paralysis wai increasing and that
the motion of her heart was interrupted by
some unknown complication and that
breathing and deglutition were also being
affected. Of late the last and most trying
development of all appeared, she could
scarcely breathe at times and in some strange
way she seemed slowly suffocating.
Prepared for the Worst.
She had been thoroughly prepared, and
being a devout Catholic, had confessed her
selt to a priest and had taken what might
be her last communion on the morning be
fore the operation. The surgeon hnd her
taken from her apartments to the operating
room, and as she prepared to take the first
inhalations of the ether she pressed her
crucifix to her breast and bade the doctors
goodby, never expecting to awake in this
world again.
At 3 o'clock f, si. she was well under
ether and a silent group of surgeons, the
mest distinguished in New York, stood
around her inanimate form. The operator
had invited a number of specialists
to be present, and several young doc
tors were there as assistants. All
were dressed in white gowns and wore
rubber aprons before them. Taking a sharp
scalpel the surgeon began by making an in
cision in the back of the patient's neck, com
mencing from the occipital protuberance
and running down to the base of the neck
directly over the back bone. He now de
flected the strong band known as the ligmen
tum nuchae to one side, and continued his
incision down to the vertebra? of the cervical
part of the column. No sign appeared of a
tumor.
Pressure in the Cavity.
"It must be entirely" said the operator,
"within the bony canal of the spine itself."
He now carefully dissected away the mus
cles from the lamella) of the second and
third vertebrse. Theu taking a trephine,
placed its sharp teeth against the
bony wall of the canal and slowly worked
it into the cavity, cutting away a
button-shaped piece ot bone directly over
the exit of the medulla oblongata, which
here comes from the cranium. On re
moving this the meningeal membranes
came out of the aperture thus formed
as though there was considerable
pressure within. This ws good evidence
that the tumor was close by. But there was
extreme danger of wounding the center of
respiration, which meant immediate death,
if the least false move of the knife were
made.
The first problem was to discover, if possi
ble, what part of the medulla was present
ing itself at the opening. As this could
not be done from only one opening, another
button of bone was removed slightly higher
up at the base of the skull itself and
the same protrusion of membrane took place
from the new opening. And now the wing
like markings that cross the, medulla at the
fourth ventricle could be made out These
are the alea: cinerial ot the physiologist, and
just below their confluence lies the terrible
center Cf respiration.
The Tnrnor Laid Bare.
This center was quickly recognized, and
to one side of it directly infringing on its
boundaries, lay a small red prominence, ob
long in shape and not larger than u pea.
The experienced eye of the surgeon at once
recognized this as a tumor of the sarcoma
type. The whole cause of the patient's Ion;
years of suffering was made clear. This
tumor was slowly but surely destroying the
nerve centers of the medulla.
The danger of removing the tumor from
such a vital spot was apparent to all, aud
the surgeons consulted in a low voice before
proceeding further. Then the operator took
up a delicate, almost fairy-like knife, or
bistoury, and began to cut between
the tumor and the nervous tissues
of tne medulla. Great drops of
sweat stood out on his forehead, and, except
the heavy breathing of the patient under
ether, the room was as silent as a tomb. The
least cut of the knife into the medulla
meant death; her life hung on a hair's
breadth. Should the patient cough during
this delicate dissection nnd turn aside the
sharp point of the knife, death would be in
stant A Hair-Breadth Escape.
But the surgeon was quick at his work
and marvellously skilful; a few cuts more
and it would b'e over. He had jnst re
moved bis knife from the wound to change
it for a sharper one when the patient coughed.
Providence or chance saved her, for had
the knife been there, the movement of the
head would have been fatal. A moment
more and the tumor was removed. But the
tension on the operator's nerves had been so
great that he was now obliged to stop a mo
ment before finishing the operation.
After a brief interval the parts were care
fully examined and no other tumors found.
The" wound was now treated autiseptically
and closed, drainage tubes being left in to
allow the free discharge of any resulting
products of healing.
One of the most remarkable circumstances
of this operation was the immediate im
provement of the patient's breathing and of
her circulation, once the tumor was re
moved. She stood the operation very well,
and ever since has felt greatly relieved.
There was considerable loss of the
cerebro-spinal fluid, but this was not re
garded as serious. All risks seem now to
have been successfully tided over. The seat
of life has been exposed and life remains.
GE0WTH OF SAVINGS BANKS.
Some Solid Talk From the New Senator
From New Hampshire.
rWRlTTEK FOK Till DISrATCH.l
Ex-Senator Cheney, of New Hampshire,
one of the richest manufacturers of that
State and the President of one of its sayings
banks, says these banks are increasing very
rapidly, and that the increase in the amount
of their deposits during 1890 was $8,000,000
over that of the year before.
"These savings of the people," said Sena
tor Cheney, "have doubled during the past
12 years, and there are now about $60,000,
OOU deposited in the savings banks of the
State. Most of the banks are mutual
affairs and they pay interest on deposits of
4 per cent and upward."
As to New Hampshire's abandoned farms
Senator Cheney said: "The best of these
deserted farms have been bought up during
the past year. New Hampshire is becom
ing a great summer residence State, and we
have an income of from 5,000,000 to 57,
000,000 a year from our summer boarders.
The summer season is quite as important to
us in a money-making way as it is to the
seaside resorts, and it will not be long until
the whole State is filled with the country
homes of city people."
DIDN'T KNOW KALAKUA,
How a California Lady Mistook; the Black
King for a Porter.
King Kalakua, who has just died, was
very black, says a San Francisco bellboy,
and when he hadn't his uniform on looked
just like any other big colored man. Just
before he got sick a lady came up on the
elevator to the sixth floor of the Palace
Hotel to see a lady friend. She didn't
know the number of her room, although she
knew the room was on that floor.
She saw a fine-looking colored man
dressed iu what looked like the blue un
dress uniform of the American navy, so she
called to him and asked him to take her
card to Mrs. Blank's room. Very politely
the colored man took her card, and with a
bow, said: "Madame, I'll see that it is
done."
Just as she hailed him I came round the
corner, and who should the supposed hall
porter be but King Kalakua. He behaved
mighty well about it, simply giving the
card and the lady's commission to me. She
was deeply mortified when she learned
what au insult she had paid to royalty.
WHEN A KNOT IS NOT A KNOT.
Something About the Uso of a Much-Abused
Nautical Word. j- t
New York limes. .
To the average landlubber, and iu fact to
many seamen, the knot- is the same thing as
the geographical, nautical or sea mile. The
knot is simply a unit for measuring speed
at sea, and has nothing to do with distance,
which is measured by the nautical mile of a
little over 6,080 feet. The exact definition
of a kuot is "a speed of one nautical mile
au hour," so that one knot is a speed of a
little more than 101 feet .a minute. The
proper word mile has been practically dis
placed, and it is a common thing to read
that "the City of Paris' daily rnn was COO
knots." This would be about 4 1-C miles,
which would be slow going even for a raft."
FOOLING BIRDS AND BEASTS.
The Buzzing Sounds of Telegraph Wires
Deceive Honey Lovers.
Illustrated News of the World.
In Java, the woodpeckers bore into the
telegraph poles, deceived by the buzzing
sound made by the wires into the belief
that insects aie concealed in the wood.
Even hard teak has been bored into by these
birds.
Iu Norway, the woodpeckers have also
been found to bore into the poles; but more
curious is the fact that, in Norway, bears
have torn away the large stones placed at
the base of the poles, deceived by the sound
into thinking that bees and their store of
hone; were to be found beneath.
A STBANGE LANGUAGE.
Chauncey M. Depew Got a Georgia Hote
Clerk Into Trpnhle.
Nashville American.
Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry is authority
for this story about Chauncey M. Depew: The
famous post-prandial orator entered a hotel in
a small town in Georgia, and walking up to the
desk, said to the dapper young clerk behind it:
"Where shall I autograph?"
"Where shall you what?" said the clerk.
"Where shall I autograph sign my name?"
said Mr. Depew.
"Oh, yes. Bight here, sir," said the clerk,
with a broad smile, producing tbo register.
Mr. Depew wrote his name in a bold hand,
and then sat down in the hotel lobby. In a few
moments four gentlemen from the suburbs,
known as Georgia "cracKers," came in. as
soon as the leader reached the desk the clerk
shook bands with him, and, reaching for the
register, said:
"Will you autograph?"
"Will I w-h-a-t?"
"Will you autograph?" repeated the clerk,
smiling.
"Well. I don't mind if I do. I'll take old
rye. What's yours, boys?" addressing his
partners.
"We'll tace the same, thanks,",said they.
The clerk treated with as good' grace as pos
sible, and, leaning against a pillar in the office,
Chauncey Depew said quietly to a friend: "Aud
that is the result of talking a foreign language
in a Georgia hotel."
LIGHT LIST OF SINNERS.
Jail Doors That Opened for Only Ordinary
Cases Yesterday.
Detective Steele yesterday arrested
Aucust Sauerroan on a charge of larceny. Ho
is alleged to have stolen some clothes from 212
River street.
John Blackburn was committed to jail
by Alderman Gripp yesterday for a hearing to
morrow, for u-ing profane language in the
presence of a crowd of women.
Charles Schade was sent to jail yesterday
on charges of larceny and larceny by bailee.
Schade is said to have stolen an overcoat from
Harry Davis and a watebcase from Laura
Hubeck.
Mary Mtjbphy, of Duquesne, was sent to
jail charged with cruelty and neglecting her
4-year-old child. Agent Dean claims she gets
drunk and then abuses her boy. She will have
a hearing to-morrow.
Henry Wilt and N. Chert got into a fight
last night at the corner of South Ninth and
Birmingham streets. Fireman James Conway
marched them to the Twenty.elgbth ward po
lice stations where they were locked up.
TOO MUCH DODGING.
Annie Bier Gets Tired of Fleeing
From Her Husband's Wrath and
WANTS HER FREEDOM BACK AGAIN
She Says That Public Holidays Were Punct
uated With BIoth.
THE JI0TH5R-1N-LAW PUTS IN A W0KD
Marriage seems to have been a failure in
the case of William and Annie Bier. Annie
sues for divorce. W. J. McDonald took
testimony, Hughey & Bennett appear for
libellant and Mr. Goehring for the respond
ent, and the testimony was filed in court
yesterday. The parties reside in the Second
ward, Allegheny.
Mrs. Bier testified that she and her bus
band were married in March, 1889, and on
the 17th of May following he threw her
against the house and hurt her badly. On
Jnne 9, of the same year, she says William
attacked her with a razor and threatened to
cut her throat. On July 4, he, as alleged,
threw her violently against the side of the
house and struck her twice with his first,
because she refused to ask her parents for
money.
Hostilities being suspended pro tempore
on account of interference by neighbors,
Mrs. Bier says William told her he would
fix her that night, and again attacked her
with a razor in their bedchamber.
A Grocery Bill Causes Trouble.
Shortly after he took umbrage at some
items in a grocery bill, and
again Annie felt the weight of his
hand. She further deposes that
the night before their child was born
he called her vile names, and then choked
her until she became insensible. The neigh
bors interfered, and after they left he broke
out again.
It is alleged that Mr. Bier got his beer by
the keg, and on Saturday it was his
custom to lay in a quart of
wnissy also. Mrs. liier also asserts
that when the baby was 3 days old they
had a shindy and he threatened to throw
the child out of the windowbecause it cried,
aud when it was 15 days old be chased her
out of the house with a razor, she having to
flee in her night clothes and barefooted. He
denied the paternity of the child and on
Labor Dav he choked her, and when she
ran out of the house, screaming, he threw a
knife after her.
In conclusion Mrs. Bier gave the cap of
the climax by relating that her husband
made overtures to the servant, overtures
that a married man should not make, and
put the girl, Mary Hildebrand, on the stand
to corroborate.
Both Sides Have Something to Say.
Mrs. Bier put her father and mother (Mr.
and Mrs. Frederick Nierliny), Mrs. Betty
Watson, Mrs. Annie Shaler, Mary Altman
and Ernest W. Schedder on the stand, and
they corroborated about all she alleged.
The defendant, William Bier, denied
specifically and generally, or offered pallia
tive explanations. He said he was only
teasing Annie when he denied the paternity
of the child.
Bespondent's mother seems rather inclined
to excuse her son's ebullitions of temper, on
the ground that Annie wasn't a good house
keeper. Mrs. Bier, Sr., told of foul sub
stances being found in the sugar,
roaches in the coffee pot, and slatternly
housekeeping generally. She also, stated
that AVilliam had kept plenty
of kindling wood in the cellar for Annie,
and altogether, gave him a pretty good
character as a husband. People who burn
coal for fnel will eive the latter recommen
dation full appreciation.
HUGGED HEB DENTIST.
An Elderly Lady Is Peculiarly Affected by
the Ether.
An elderly female, who evidently had
never been married, walked in on us one
day, says a dentist in the Detroit Journal.
She was tall and angular, and her face was
one that might on a pinch have been used to
raise the City Hall. She was dressed iu a
costume of many and incongruous colors,
and her general make up made her a fit sub
ject for a freak in a dime museum. Sbe in
sisted on taking ether to nave a tooth
pulled. When the ether began to take
effect she commenced to struggle. She
kicked and screamed, and it kept two of us
employed to hold her in the chair. Then
she began to cry for somebody by the name
of Bobert
"Oh, Bobert, dear, come and help me,"
she cried. In her struggles one of her arms
fell on my shoulder, and in a moment she
drew it about my neck and pulled my head
down to her. Then she threw her arm about
me and cried joyfully. "Ah, Bobert, at
last I have you. They can't hurt me now."
This might have been very nice for Bob
ert, but as the office was a rather public
place for that kind ot a demonstration the
sitnation was rather embarrassing. My as
sistant thought it was awfully funny, and
instead of trying to help me out of my pre
dicament, he stood aud laughed at me. I
stood the hugging for a lew moments, and
then the eflect of the ether began to leave
her. With returning consciousness her
maiden modesty came back, and when she
found me in her arms she gave a scream,
broke from the chair and ran out of the of
fice. I have never seen her since, but that
woman probably thinks that her youth was
taken advantage of.
A CHINESE CHESTEEFIELD.
Advice of the ato Tseng Kno Tan in His
Letters to His Son.
A Chinese Chesterfield has been discov
ered in the person of the late Tseng Kuo
Tan, whose letters to his son derive an addi
tional interest from the fact that this son
was no other than the Marquis Tseng, who,
as the Chinese Envoy and Minister Pleni
potentiary, was long a notable figure in
English society. The style of this sage's
admonitions, judging from some transla
tions that have been published, certainly
bears a remarkable resemblance to that of
Dr. Johnson's negligent patron. In one he
recommends bis young correspondent to
avoid "an excessive animation of manner."
"If," he observes, "there is one virtue
which your ancestors emulated, it was that
of dignity."
With admirable candor he adds: "Lack
of perseverance is my crowning defect, as
levity is yours."
Hearing that his son is indisposed, he bids
him beware of drugs, also of doctors. "All
I have met with," he says, "at home or
abroad, have been frauds."
In another letter he acknowledges the
news of his correspondent's marriage, aud
observes: "It will be a great pleasure to
your mother to have a daughter-in-law."
He also takes the opportunity of inculcating
the duty of earlv rising, and reminds his son
that "our ancestors were never in bed after 4
in the morning."
WHAT'S IN A KISS.
Though Considered Instinctive the Barbar
ians Don't Know It.
New York Fress.1
The kiss between persons of opposite sex
is generally considered to be instinctive.
Beichenbach sought to explain it on the
theory that the mouth was the focus of his
"odic force," and that these two foci of op
posite sexes possessed natural attraction to
each other.
The fact that the mutual kiss between op
posite sexes is not general among the tribes
of men is abundantly shown by the observa
tions oftravelers in the lands where savagery
and barbarism still exist. Where it is now
practiced it is not probably of great antiq
uity. It some languages, notably the Jap
anese, there is no word for kiss.
A CHICAGO TIME SAVES.
How He Disposes or Appeals for Charity
and Wins a Good Name.
New York Sun.
I was in the office of a Chicago real estate
and loan agent the other day, and had
scarcely got seated when a woman was ad
mitted and asked him for a subscription lo
some charity.
"With the greatest or pleasure, ma'am,"
he replied, and, producing a checkbook, he
filled out a check for 510. She thanked
him very sweetly as she withdrew, and it
was only five minutes later when a man en
tered and asked for a contribution to some
poor childrens' fund.
"Certainly only too glad," replied the
agent, and be wrote another check for $10.
After we had been interrupted lour times,
and be had cheerfully written four checks,
I said to him:
"You certainly deserve the title 67 a
philanthropist"
"Well, perhaps."
"But I notice that you ask no questions
and take everything for granted. Have you
no fear of being swindled?"
"None whatever."
"Well, the people of Chicago must be an
honest crowd."
"Oh, it isn't that my dear sir. Let
me "
Here a lady entered and asked for a con
tribution to assist in giving a free excursion
to a Sunday school, and he wrote a check
for $15 and waved her out, and continued:
"Let me explain. , All those checks are
worthless, as they are drawn on a bank
where I have no funds. I do it to save
time. AU these callers come prepared to
argue and explain and contend, and each
one of them would sit for half an hour. By
giving these checks I secure a great reputa
tion around the block as a philanthropist
and a well-heeled man, and it costs me noth
ing. When "
Here he parfscd to fill out a check for $20
for the establishment of a sailors' bethel,
and then finished:
"When the checks are presented they are
found to be worthless, and those holding
them either get mad or see the joke. In
either case they never return, nor do they
give me away. Try it, my boy. Saves
time, money and gab, and it won't be a
month belore you'll be satisfied that you are
doing charity a better service than if you
were handing out the cold cash."
BETURNING THE CALLS.
An Experience ol Mrs. Sherman and the
Present Custom.
Mrs. Senator Sherman once told me that
in attempting to return a call made upon her
while her husband was Secretary of the
Treasury, she found her carriage stopped in
front of a meat shop, and upon going up the
side entrance to the second story, she found
the lady who had called upon her kept a
millinery establishment, whose chief con
stituents" seemed to be colored people.
Many of the Cabinet ladies now return their
calls by merely sending cards, and some are
even returned by sending the cards through
the mail.
This, however, is the refinement of red
tape snobbishness and the sending around of
the cards by a messenger is bad enough, and
perhaps the best way would be not to return
the tails at all. The returning of calls, how
ever, is not a matter of choice as far us
officials are concerned. The Senators' wives
and the wives ot the members of the House
of Representatives would feel verv much in
sulted it their calls were not returned, and
the Cabinet Ministers might find some of
their pet icheices opposed in Congress
through the ill-feeling caused by such a
blunder on the part of their wives.
STANLEY AT TWENTY-EOTJE.
An Interesting Photograph of the Explorer
Taken Many Years Ago.
St. Louis Republic. 1
When Henry M. Stanley was a poor un
known newspaper reporter in St Louis iu
1866,he boarded with Mrs. Charles Pans, who
then kept a boarding-house ou Broadway
and Wash street. Mrs. Faus took more
than ordinary interest in the young journal
ist and showed hini attention and kind
nesses that won his highest esteem and re
spect On leaving St. Louis for the West
the same year he had photographs taken at
Omaha and sent one to Mrs. Faus. This
picture Mrs. Faus has ever carefully pre
served, and it is now the only one in exist
ence of Stanley at that age When
the Stanleys were here last month
Mrs. Stanley heard of the photograph
Stanley at Z! Years.
and expressed a great desire to secure it.
Mrs. Faus was too indisposed to call on the
now renowned explorer and his family, but
she sent the photograph to Mrs. Stanley,
with the reqnest, however, that it be re
turned. Mrs. Stauley was delighted with
the picture and offered every inducement
possible to become the owner ot it, without
avail. On learning the high appreciation
Mrs. Stauley had for the picture, Mrs.
I'a.us' daughter, a bright little brunette of
14 summers, who is developing wonderful
talent as an artist, conceived the idea of
making a crayon from the photograph and
presenting it to Mrs. Stanley on their return
bere next month.
OCHILTEEE MEETS PASTETJB.
Surprised to Find the Scientist Is Bnsy in
His Institute.
During last August, says Tom Ochiltree
in the New York Press, I had the pleasure
of visiting Pasteur's Institute, in connection
with Surgeon General Hamilton, of the
United States army. A guide escorted us
through the kennels where the dogs, rabbits
and other animals to be inoculated were
boused, and then through the wards, where
patients from all parts were collected men
from Russia and as far off as Texas. After
we had been shown all through, I asked
where Pasteur's residence was, and an un
ostentatious brick housj across the way was
pointed out to me.
"I would like to go there and pay my re
spects to the greatest man in Europe," I said
to the guide.
"Why, that is he standing there mixing
that preparation," answered the guide.
Pasteur is an ordinary sized man, fairly
good-lookiug, wears a gray beard, most
mouest anu retiring.
I
A Strong Man's Habits.
I abstained two years ago from liquor and
tobacco; before that, used to take them regu
larly, says Louis Cyr, of. Montreal, the
giant I am three times better off since
then. I gained in strength enough to lift
700 ponnds more in these two years. I eat
five or fix pounds of meat a day; cat as
much as three woodchoppers. It would
make you hungry, perhaps, to see me at
dinner. They charge me double board;
never mind, I pay it I am always gaining
in strength I guess I was born that way
and I guess 1 will lift 4,000 before I get
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What power Death's cruel hand can stay?
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The hand of time deals lightly with a
woman in perfect health. But all func
tional derangements and disorders pe
culiar to women leave their mark. You
needn't have them. Dr. Pierce's Fa
vorite Prescription comes to your res
cue as no other medicine can. It cures
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For periodical pains, prolapsus and
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ALL THE NOVELTIES IN INTERIOR DECORATIONS.
SILK FOR WALL HANGINGS.
GOBELIN FLAX.
JAPANESE LEATHERS.
JEFFREYS' NEW ENGLISH PAPERS.
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W THE WEATHER.
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Fon Westers Peit2syi.va
kia: Frequent Rains or
Snow, Northerly Winds;
Colder by Monday.
For Ohio and West Vieginia: Fair
Weather, Except Local Snows on
the Lake, Winds Shifting to North
erly; Colder by Monday.
Pittsburg, Feb. 7.
The United States Signal Servica officer ia
this city lurnisnes ine louomap
Time. Tnr.
8:JOA. 3f 37
TTl-r.
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JOiOOA. M
Maximum temp.... SO
11. 00 A. M 41
120 M 41
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S:00r. U 43
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Range ! .
Mrantemp 42.o
Rainfall 7i
SPZCIAL weatheb BULLETIH.
The Bain Area Covered All the States East
of the Mississippi.
rrBzrAEiD for tub .dispatch.'.
An extensive rainstorm was central yester
day in the Ohio Valley. The rain area covered
all the States east of the Mississippi. The fall
in Georgia, Mississlpri, Alabama and North
Carolina averaeed 1 inches. This storm de
veloped in Texas Friday and is passing directly
northeast. It was central near New York yes
terday, and high winds were predicted to blow
along tbo coast from Hatteras to Eastport,
Me. The storm in the Northwest moved south
to Wyoming and Colorado, but as yet is devoid
of much moisture. This storm shows a ten
dency to considerable energy, and will follow in
the wake ot the one in the Ohio valley. A cold
wave has made its appearance in the extreme
Northwest, coming down from British America.
In all other parts of the country it was warmer
Friday. On tbe Atlantic coast tbere was a
dense fog.
THE BIVEB STILL FALLIHG.
Bain Up the Valley Jfot Sufficient to Ma
terially Affect It.
The wet, miserable weather of yesterday
seemed to have its effect noon trade along tbe
riverfront. There was but little doing. Tbe
river got down to nine feet, and was still slowly
falling last niglit. despite tbe fact that rain was
reported at various points np country. Still,
tbe downpour was not sufficient to affect tbe
stage of water at this point. Tbe total fall of
the river within tbe past 21 hours has been
nearly two feet.
Tbe Cincinnati packet yesterday was the
Conzo, and when sbe went out about 5 o'clock
sbe bad a fair cargo. Tbe up-river boat was
the Adam Jacobs. She left at 3 o'clock for
ilorg.intown with a good freight list.
The repairs npon tbo Joseph Nixon are pro
gressing rapidly, and wben competed it is ex
pected tbat they will cost Walton & Co. at least
512,000.
Itlver Telegrams.
rSrECIAI. TILEOKAU S TO Till DIUPATrH. I
Almghkxt JuscTiON-ltlver 9 feet ana ris
ing. Wiatlicr cloudy and rainy.
Louisville River readied its height at noon;
ou a btar.ct to-night: J2 feet In canal, 20.S feet on
falts. and 4s feet at foot of locks. Business zood.
Weather clear and cloudy; local showers aud
cooler at ulxht.
CAino KtTer 26 feet 4 Inches and rising.
'Wealhrr fair and mild.
HKELlNG r.lrer 15 feet and stationary.
Weather cloudy and cool.
Cikcimxat Hirer street 7,4 Inches and falling.
W eather rainy and cold.
MEMrnis River rising. Weather partly
cloudy and pleasant.
ST. Louis-Klrer aown 4 feet 6 Inches. Weather
clear ana pleasant.
J. G. Bennett Co,
Leading
Hatters and Furriers,
Corner Wood street
and Filth avenue.
The "Favorite Prescription" is a
powerful, restorative tonic and nerv
ine, imparting strength to the whole
system in general, and to the uterine
organs and appendages in particular.
It keeps years from your face and fig
ure but adds years to your life. It's
guaranteed to give satisfaction in every
case. If it doesn't, your money is re
turned. "World's Dispensary Medical Associa
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"Well! Well!"
That's the way you feel after one or two of
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets have done their
work. You feel well, instead of bilious and
constipated ; your sick headache, dizziness
and indigestion aregone. It's done mildly
and easily, too. You don't have to feel
worse before you feel better. That is the
troublo with the huge, old-fashioned pill.
These are small, sugar-coated, easiest to
take. One little Pellet's a laxative, three
to four are' cathartic. They regulate and
cleanse the liver, stomach ana bowels
cheapest
you onlj
cut thorougmy. iney're tne
pill, sold by druggists, because
only pay for the good you get.
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Another Good Man Gone Wrong,
And not a bank cashier, either. Extravagance)
in dress is one of tbe reasons assigned; a littla
economy in this particular will save you a
world of trouble, and we know of no one who
can assist you as well as Dickson.the Tailor.of 63
Fifth .it., up stairs, who will clean and repair
your old clothes for a trifle. feS
Just sit down and think if you kno
any better place in the city of
Pittsburg to procure a
STRICTLY PURE WHISKY
Than at
Jos.Fleming& Son's Drugstore.
Their OLD EXPORT WHISKY is by all
odds the nnest WbisKy now soiti in tne city.
Put np fn full quarts at aj. or six ior jo.
Call
on or address
JOS. FLEMING- & SON",
Wholesale and Retail Druggists,
412 Market Street, Cor. Diamond,
PITTSBUEG, PA.
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Of Allegheny has contributed
her portion of merchant tailor
made suits and overcoats
(a recent purchase). The
measure-taJiing price ranged
from $22 50 to $35, but W9
still cling to our old figures,
$12.
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